• DocumentCode
    2657039
  • Title

    Climate change and ICTs

  • Author

    Kim, Seungdo ; Kim, Hyeon-Kyeong ; Kim, Hyoung Jun

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Environ. Sci. & Biotechnol., Hallym Univ., South Korea
  • fYear
    2009
  • fDate
    18-22 Oct. 2009
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    4
  • Abstract
    Recently climate change has emerged as one of the biggest challenges due to its tremendous impacts on environment as well as mankind. Many efforts to mitigate climate change have been made across nations, international organization, industries and individuals. Information and communication technologies (ICTs) have drawn attention because of their potential to play a key role in coping with climate changes. In this paper, we presented an overview of climate change, the role of ICTs in mitigating the climate change, green ICT strategies in general and green ICT strategy of Korea.
  • Keywords
    climatology; environmental factors; environmental science computing; climate change; environment; green ICT strategy; information and communication technology; Biotechnology; Carbon dioxide; Communications technology; Earth; Global warming; Humans; Ocean temperature; Sea level; Snow; Weather forecasting;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Telecommunications Energy Conference, 2009. INTELEC 2009. 31st International
  • Conference_Location
    Incheon
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-2490-0
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4244-2491-7
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/INTLEC.2009.5351786
  • Filename
    5351786